Lentamente Para

Lentamente Para

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Andalusian (G2)
Color: Bay Dun
Gallery: Dilutes
Medium: Acrylic and Pastels
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

I was tempted to keep the musical theme going, but instead I went with ‘names not in English’ instead. (Although I did consider Rinforte).

Lentamente Para means “Slowly it Stops” in Spanish, which seemed appropriate considering the breed history and the dressage movement. (more…)

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Tempest Teapot

Tempest Teapot

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Arabian (G2)
Color: Dun Splash Overo Blanket Appaloosa
Gallery: Appaloosa
Medium: Pastels and Acrylics
Status: Painted in 2004 and Sold November 2004

This little guy was going to be my first horse done in pastels, a nice dun splash overo… and them my dog sneezed.

So I’m not sure if such a thing as an overo appaloosa exists in nature, but it sure as heck exists in model horse-dom! Amusingly he fared rather well at the small home-show I took him too, so regardless of his reality he’s a nice bit of eye candy. (more…)

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